Principal Investigator

Prof. Dr. Andre Franke

Institution

Kiel University Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

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Vita

Education/Training

2004 – 2006
PhD work at CAU under supervision of Profs. Stefan Schreiber: “A systematic genome-wide association analysis for inflammatory bowel diseases”

2002 – 2003
Diploma thesis at the laboratory of Prof. Thomas C.G. Bosch at CAU: “Development of a high-throughput screening for identification of developmentally regulated genes in Hydra”

1998 – 2002
Study of Biology and Informatics at CAU


Research Experience/Academic Appointments

Since 2016
W3 professorship of Molecular Medicine

Since 2011
Director of the Institute of Clinical Molecular Biology

2011 – 2016

W2 endowment professorship “Peter Hans-Hofschneider”of the Foundation of Experimental Biomedicine (Zuerich, Switzerland)

2011
Guest scientists at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (Boston, USA) in the group of Mark J. Daly and mentored by Richard S. Blumberg

2008 – 2013
Academic guest professorship at the Medical Faculty, University of Oslo, Norway (Rikshospitalet)

2008 – 2011
W1 junior professorship for Epithelial Barrier Diseases within the DFG Cluster of Excellence “Inflammation at Interfaces”


Important Scientific Prizes/Functions

Since 2012
Spokesperson of the DFG Research Training Group GRK1743/1 “Genes, Environment and Inflammation”

Since 2012
Member of the Steering Committee of “Inflammation at Interfaces”; Leader of Research Area I (Genetics)

2017
Schleswig-Holstein Excellence Chair (8 professors in State selected)

2017
Thannhauser Prize of the DGVS

2012
Ludwig-Demling Research Prize of German Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation (DCCV); 25,000 €

2011
Janssen Prize Dermatology

2009 – 2012
Spokesperson of the young investigators of the Excellence Cluster “Inflammation at Interfaces”

2008
Hensel Prize (100,000 €) for Excellent Research of CAU Kiel

Research

Publications

2020

FeaturedA fungal pathogen induces systemic susceptibility and systemic shifts in wheat metabolome and microbiome composition

Seybold H, Demetrowitsch TJ, Hassani M A, Szymczak S, Reim E, Haueisen J, Lübbers L, Rühlemann M, Franke A, Schwarz k, H. Stukenbrock E (2020) Nature Communications. 11(1):1910. doi: 10.1038/s41467-020-15633-x

2019

FeaturedComparative analysis of amplicon and metagenomic sequencing methods reveals key features in the evolution of animal metaorganisms

Rausch P, Rühlemann M, Hermes BM, Doms S, Dagan T, Dierking K, Domin H, Fraune S, von Frieling J, Hentschel U, Heinsen F-A, Höppner M, Jahn MT, Jaspers C, Kissoyan KAB, Langfeldt D, Rehman A, Reusch TBH, Roeder T, Schmitz RA, Schulenburg H, Soluch R, Sommer F, Stukenbrock E, Weiland-Bräuer N, Rosenstiel P, Franke A, Bosch T, Baines JF (2019) Microbiome, doi: 10.1186/s40168-019-0743-1

Consistent alterations in faecal microbiomes of patients with primary sclerosing cholangitis independent of associated colitis

Rühlemann M, Liwinski T, Heinsen F-A, Bang C, Zenouzi R, Kummen M, Thingholm L, Tempel M, Lieb W, Karlsen T, Lohse A, Hov J, Denk G, Lammert F, Krawczyk M, Schramm C, Franke A (2019) Aliment Pharmacol Ther. 1-10. doi: 10.1111/apt.15375

FeaturedAlterations of the bile microbiome in primary sclerosing cholangitis

Liwinski T, Zenouzi R, John C, Ehlken H, Rühlemann MC, Bang C, Groth S, Lieb W, Kantowski M, Andersen N, Schachschal G, Karlsen TH, Hov JR, Rösch T, Lohse AW, Heeren J, Franke A, Schramm C (2019) Gut 0:1–8. doi:10.1136/gutjnl-2019-318416

2018

Exposure to the gut microbiota drives distinct methylome and transcriptome changes in intestinal epithelial cells during postnatal development

Pan WH, Sommer F, Falk-Paulsen M, Ulas T, Best P, Fazio A, Kachroo P, Luzius A, Jentzsch M, Rehman A, Müller F, Lengauer T, Walter J, Künzel S, Baines JF, Schreiber S, Franke A, Schultze JL, Bäckhed F, Rosenstiel P (2018) Genome Med. 10(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13073-018-0534-5.

Exposure to the gut microbiota drives distinct methylome and transcriptome changes in intestinal epithelial cells during postnatal development.

Pan WH, Sommer F, Falk-Paulsen M, Ulas T, Best P, Fazio A, Kachroo P, Luzius A, Jentzsch M, Rehman A, Müller F, Lengauer T, Walter J, Künzel S, Baines JF, Schreiber S, Franke A, Schultze JL, Bäckhed F, Rosenstiel P (2018); Genome Med. 10(1):27. doi: 10.1186/s13073-018-0534-5

The sponge holobiont in a changing ocean: from microbes to ecosystems.

Pita L, Rix L, Slaby B M, Franke A, Hentschel U (2018); Microbiome, 6(46). doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0428-1

Epidermal lipid composition, barrier integrity, and eczematous inflammation are associated with skin microbiome configuration

Baurecht H, Rühlemann M, Rodríguez E, Thielking F, Harder I, Erkens AS, Stölzl D, Ellinghaus E, Hotze M, Lieb W, Wang S, Heinsen FA, Franke A, Weidinger S (2018) J ALLERGY CLIN IMMUN . doi: 10.1016/j.jaci.2018.01.019

The antibiotic resistome and microbiota landscape of refugees from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan in Germany.

Häsler R, Kautz C, Rehman A, Podschun R, Gassling V, Brzoska P, Sherlock J, Gräsner J T, Hoppenstedt G, Schubert S, Ferlinz A, Lieb W, Laudes M, Heinsen F A, Scholz J, Harmsen D, Franke A, Eisend S, Kunze T, Fickenscher H, Ott S, Rosenstiel P, Schreiber S (2018); Microbiome., 6(1):37. doi: 10.1186/s40168-018-0414-7

2017

Application of the distance-based F test in an mGWAS investigating β diversity of intestinal microbiota identifies variants in SLC9A8 (NHE8) and 3 other loci.

Rühlemann M C, Degenhardt F, Thingholm L B, Wang J, Skiecevičienė J, Rausch P, Hov J R, Lieb W, Karlsen T H, Laudes M, Baines J F, Heinsen F A, Franke A (2017); Gut Microbes., 8:55. doi: 10.1080/19490976.2017.1356979

2016

FeaturedGenome-wide association analysis identifies variation in vitamin D receptor and other host factors influencing the gut microbiota.

Wang J, Thingholm L B, Skiecevičienė J, Rausch P, Kummen M, Hov J R, Degenhardt F, Heinsen F A, Rühlemann M C, Szymczak S, Holm K, Esko T, Sun J, Pricop-Jeckstadt M, Al-Dury S, Bohov P, Bethune J, Sommer F, Ellinghaus D, Berge R K, Hübenthal M, Koch M, Schwarz K, Rimbach G, Hübbe P, Pan W H, Sheibani-Tezerji R, Häsler R, Rosenstiel P, D’Amato M, Cloppenborg-Schmidt K, Künzel S, Laudes M, Marschall H U, Lieb W, Nöthlings U, Karlsen T H, Baines J F, Franke A (2016); Nat Genet., 48(11):1396-1406. doi: 10.1038/ng.3695